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I have been on vacation and am finally really tired of eating out. We have a ton of January birthdays to celebrate so that means eating out 2 more times this month. But last week was a winner on eating healthy and it’s always great to start the new year off on the right foot.

GeekySpouse and I are really trying to keep our 2010 goals of eating better and exercising. Cooking at home and keeping track of calories has been the only way I’ve gotten anywhere. I miss my younger days when I worked out enough to eat whatever I want. But perhaps if I can get to the y at least 5 times a week I can shed the pounds that are keeping me from having the energy I want. Wish me luck!

I’m trying to add more iron and potassium to my diet. If you have any good recipes leave me a link in the comments. It’s ok if it’s meaty – I will just make a veggie version.

I’m also going to concentrate on posting more recipes this year and possibly starting a new slow cooking blog. I’ll let you know more about that next week!

Breakfast of the week: Kashi Heart to Heart cereal instead with unsweetened vanilla almond milk with banana or dried apricots

If you’re looking to add iron and potassium to your diet, consider eating more raisins and bananas. Raisins are loaded with iron, and bananas are a good source of potassium. There’s a yummy banana curry sauce at Allrecipes here:http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Curried-Banana-Sauce/Detail.aspx
And you can get free cookbooklets from Sun-Maid Raisins that have yummy raisin meals.

Good luck on your healthy eating goals! Sounds like you are really motivated. 🙂

Thanks for the ideas. I am keeping track of it at sparkpeople and even with both of those, winter squash, greens, and salmon I can’t make the daily min which is like 4500. I’m starting to wonder if anyone else gets that much either…